The IRC
server is multi threaded, for obvious reasons. Once it has accepted a connection it moves your connection to a different
localport and binds on 6667 agian. That you can connect TO 6667 multiple times ain't magic. 6667 is the
outbound port. On the
local computer (your) it could be anything from
0 to 32K.
Read up on sockets

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